EVENTS 
Concept 2 Rowing is inviting people to help them count down to the Summer Olympics with their virtual "Row to Beijing."
If current figures are an accurate predictor, the 2008 U.S. Air Force Marathon appears well on its way to shattering last year's registration record of more than 6,700 runners.
Bike racing comes to the
Chicago area in a big way this month, with the debut of the Chicago Criterium
in Grant Park on July 27. But that’s just one of the opportunities for cyclists
in the Chicago area.
Running Away Multisport has
acquired the Lake Zurich Triathlon, which this year will be moved to Wauconda
and renamed the Bangs Lake Multisport Festival.
On July 27, the Chicago
Criterium bike race will be passing in front of the Trek Bicycle store at 1118
S. Michigan Ave.
One day, one million runners, 25 cities, and 25 top musical
acts join in an unprecedented new race experience.
Fall Out Boy will perform at the Nike+ Human Race 10K in Chicago, while Kanye West will give a concert at the Los Angeles race.
Tour de Fat, New Belgium Brewing’s traveling celebration of all things bicycle, rolls through 11 cities this season, spreading the good word about the myriad benefits of cycling and celebrating mankind’s greatest invention… the bike.
Backpacker Magazine’s Summit for Someone, the benefit climb program supporting Big City Mountaineers, announces several celebrity climb options for 2008.
On July 27, the Chicago Criterium bike race will be passing in front of the Trek Bicycle store at 1118 S. Michigan Ave. To celebrate race day, Trek will bring in a fleet of Trek Madone bicycles for customers to test ride. 
Registration is now open
for the first annual YWCA of Minneapolis Women’s Triathlon.
Chicagoan Patrick Nardi couldn’t figure out a good place to put his race number on his bike. So he invented one.
I talked to a former highly competitive runner the other day, who lamented the fact that he wasn’t fast anymore. He’s in his 50s.